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Aug 14, 2023 · This paper aims to show how differences merge in the novel to create a mixed society made up of persons from varied social and geographic backgrounds who voyage on the ship Ibis to a distant land...
Sea of Poppies is a historical novel that opens in 1838 on the eve of the opium wars. Set in Eastern India and the Bay of Bengal, the narrative begins with the arrival of a former slave ship Ibis at Ganga-Sagar Island.
The present study proposes to study the seas/river symbolism as the creative power of nature and time. The study deals with the question how the interior reality is marginalized by placing the individual within a historical context i.e. exterior reality.
ABSTRACT: In this paper I examine the work of Amitav Ghosh as offering a fictional method that has evolved out of his immersion in subaltern historical practice and one that successfully bridges the gap between these marginalised communities issues of caste, race, culture, indenture labour and colonialism.
This paper seeks to shed light on the formation of communities in a transnational space in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies which chronicles the lives of a motley group of people who, after many upheavals, board the Ibis.
With Sea of Poppies (2008), Amitav Ghosh re-enacts the history of the first wave of the Indian diaspora. He gathers many different characters on a ship heading for Mauritius Island. On board they learn how to manage change and how to live with their fears and dreams.
This research paper explores Sea of Poppies, a novel of the Indian translingual writer Amitav Ghosh, as an example of this language transformation. The novel is studied, along with the works...
Sea of Poppies (2008), the first installment of the IBIS trilogy, is a narrative set just before the First Opium Wars (1839-42) that foreshadows the colonial history in the East taking mostly three continents India, China and Britain.
Sea of Poppies the characters and their nature have a deep in sight of what really happened and what not and even their names reveal their characters specifications. Colonial exploitation is one of the major themes in Amitav Ghosh novels in Sea of Poppies.
Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies published in the year 2008, re-enacts the history of indentured labour, the story of their problems and position in the society, their dislocation, the anguish of migration from their motherland, and the way they withstood the issues of identity.
